Does crime affect unemployment? The Role of social networks

Conventional segregation indices indicate complete integration when the proportion of minorities in a metropolitan area is replicated in any subarea. However, this would not occur, even absent discrimination, because majorities and minorities have different distributions of other residence-determining characteristics. Segregation indices derived from predictions of commuting times for blacks, based on white commuting behavior, have a better theoretical foundation, are largely independent of conventional indices, and imply very different segregation rankings for metropolitan areas.